Welcome to Nayan Myerson-Jain who comes to us as a Yale Prize Postdoctoral Fellow in Condensed Matter Physics. He is working with Meng Cheng, Associate Professor of Physics.
He received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2020 and his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2025.
About his research Myerson-Jain states, “I mainly study quantum criticality and critical phenomena, as well as information-theoretic properties of quantum many-body systems. Recently, I have been especially involved in studying new physics that may arise at boundaries or defects of quantum critical points, where gapless fluctuations in the bulk lead to novel universality classes of these impurities. Additionally, I am interested in the entanglement properties of quantum many-body systems under noise and measurement, as well as the classification of mixed-state phases more broadly.”